"If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service."

-- Meryle Secrest

#House Quotes #Creative Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.”

Source : Song: The Rule Won't Die, Album: Rule 3:36
“I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.”
“I've not had a mean life.”

Source : "Sissy Spacek Talks ‘My Extraordinary Ordinary Life,’ Hollywood Stereotypes" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.
“The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.”
“I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.”
“Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start to see what is happening. Since I never plan in advance, I simply let myself be led by instinct, taste and intuition. And it is in this manner that I find myself creating visions that I have never before imagined. And little by little certain color effects develop that excite me and I find the painting itself leading me on and I become only an instrument of a greater, wiser force...or being...or intelligence than I myself am.”
“The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that itâ€™s not whatâ€™s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. Itâ€™s not even whatâ€™s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, itâ€™s whatâ€™s in your heart.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
“My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.”

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